Mobo with PCI-e 16 and Card says PCI-e 2.0

Lohengramm

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Hello folks, so heres the story. My mobo has a PCI-E 16x (running at 16x) and i'm planning on buying a HD5770 1GB GDDR5 XFX, The card says it needs a pci-e 2.0 port.

So the question is, can I use the card on my motherboard? And if I do, how does it affect it? What are the differences between PCI-E 16x and PCI-E 2.0 16x?

It will bottleneck, and how?

My specs are:
Phenom II x4 920 @ 2.8Ghz (Stock)
HD4670 1gb ddr2
Mobo Gigabyte M68M-S2P
4Gb RAM (800Mhz)
1TB HD Western Digital
PSU 550w.

Thanks in advance and forgive me for my ignorance, googled already and found no answers.
 

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